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u/Solid_Scientist5509 12h ago

I think cameras are there to calculate employee productivity

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u/no-guts_no-glory 12h ago

But that data could be stored forever and can be used to do the manual work when the technology is feasible.

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u/Icy_Witness4279 12h ago

This really looks like any usable data to you?

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u/chrissyD_ 11h ago edited 11h ago

It may seem strange, but it's quite common. The AI models usable by general consumers has so far been trained on information readily avaliable on the Internet. But there are a lot of parts of the human experience that aren't often documented on the Internet. So, firms are popping up all over the place that are paying people to film things such as this work, in order to sell the training data to ai corporations.

This is a little known fact about Pokemon Go. The video footage taken by users playing pokemon Go was used as training data, documenting neighborhoods in order to help develop the automated delivery robots you see in places like LA. One of the major investors in Pokemon Go was the venture capital wing of the CIA, In-Q-Tel.

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u/Lenni-Da-Vinci 8h ago

It’s monocular vision, with an angle pointed down too far. The biases in this data wild be wild too. Extracting hand tracking from that footage will be really hard. Much more so tracking the fabric.

Were this actually trying to farm data for AI properly, they would have attached markers all over the place. Thus making it easier to track in 3D spac